Friday, May 18, 2007
Friday art blogging-injun
MEDICINE CROW
well, since i returned with a native american, will do the rest in order.
this is Medicine Crow. a Crow indian, from the time-life books. i always admired him, so he was the first. this series started when we had to do 2? figure paintings outside of figure painting class. now, one of the other students, said that painting from a photo was inferior. of course i say, that to make a photo '2 dimensional' is harder than painting from a live body, and aren't you still looking at a body? eh, no biggie. the teacher liked the under paint color, which he said was the color of catlinite/pipestone. i intended it to be fleshtoned of a indian suntanned. and they liked how i did the deerskin. they liked his hand too. i am pleased with the colors. i started out with purples and roses in that range, but wasn't working.(only in feathers by face). i paint kinda oddly. 1st the face, bleeding outward. then the beads, and work outward til med crow was done and put in the background. for many years, this was at our family cottage. even tho married to a woman with indian blood, grandpa was kinda racist. but he liked it. my step monster would cover it with a towel when she and the pater were up at the cottage. told my aunt he gave her the heebie-jeebies. which makes me like him even more!
